The office in a pub: nice work if you can get it

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While Oscar Wilde once quipped that “work is the curse of the drinking
classes”, it seems pubs are being used for more sober purposes these days.
One new survey claims they are increasingly being used as workplaces as
technology takes work outside offices and office hours.

The survey of 2,000 adults, commissioned by the wi-fi provider The
Cloud, found that four out of five respondents were logging on in pubs
equipped with wi-fi to stay in touch with work e-mails and one in six had
taken video conference calls in the saloon bar. Those using pubs send an
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